When Did You Stop Sending Holiday Photo Cards & Newsletters?

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Meanderer

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When Do You Stop Sending Christmas Cards?

Why I’ve Stopped Sending Holiday Photo Cards
We used to go all out. This year, my urge to share has already been well sated.
By Nina Burleigh (2012)

http://ideas.time.com/2012/12/06/why-ive-stopped-sending-holiday-photo-cards/

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Long ago I used to mail out at least 50. Never did the bragging newsletter (as in "Brittnee just won the Nobel Prize at age 15, and son Bubba has just signed with the NFL after he finishes pre-K) or photos. Now I send only about a dozen with handwritten notes to far away elderlies and real BFFS . and only get maybe 3/4 of that # back. But that's ok, I know they appreciate getting them. Love your diagram, Meanderer, so true!
 
Never did photo cards or newsletters, but we still send Christmas cards, just picked up mine for this year from Barnes and Noble bookstore.
 
I have a "card block". I have bought cards for Christmas, Birthday's, Sympathy,etc. but for some reason never get them mailed. I have even addressed some and they lay on the table awaiting a trip to the mail box until the time for the card is past and then go to the file 13. If someone could explain to me why I do this then maybe I could really mail out some of them.
 
We stopped about ten years ago but for the next couple years we dribbled out three or four then stopped completely.
 
I send one to my aged uncle (99) because he always sends one to me.
I get quite a few dispite not sending any. I remember my growing up years, almost every door-way was covered in Christmas cards.
 
Never did photo cards but my sister's kids all do and I enjoy getting them. I stopped sending xmas cards for a few years, but people keep sending them to us. So I send them to the people who send us cards. Being a bit of a tightwad this year and only sending them to people in the UK, plus one to my aunt in Ohio. Mailing to the US is never cheap.
 
If I see a pattern, it's that thoughtful card sending, outweighs the "mindless" chore of mailing cards. The number doesn't matter.

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I said previously we stopped ten years ago. I stand corrected. We stopped more like twenty-five years ago. And a little before that, I stopped sending valentines.
 
Sending Cards
Garnett Ann Schultz

It's a sweet old friendly custom
At this special time of year,
That we send a Christmas greeting
To the folks we hold so dear.
Just a little card of gladness
That we seal with love and care,
But it means the world to someone
Christmas morn, to find it there.

There's a card that says "I love you,"
Always one that brings a smile,
Then the customary message
That is always right in style...
It's a pleasant happy custom
That each person loves and knows,
Sending cards delights the giver
And takes sunshine where it goes.
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